Love From the Linden Trees

It’s weird that I just saw a thing about what not to say to someone having a panic attack because I had a full blown one in the ER and the nurse asked me if I had anything recurring besides anxiety and uh, don’t say shit like that. Because I know it’s not a real heart attack/something horrible I will die from but it feels like it is. I feel like I’m going to die and telling myself I’m not doesn’t make that go away and trivializing it as anxiety makes you feel stupid. And the last thing you want in between trying to breathe and make your heart stop pounding is to feel like you’re going to die being stupid.